History

The participants of the uprising of June 17th, 1953, and the victims of its suppression will be commemorated today. Berlin's Governing Mayor Franziska Giffey said workers from Berlin and Brandenburg had initiated the protests back then. Freedom needed to be defended over and over again.

Seventy-three years ago today, the Berlin Airlift ended. This unprecedented aid program saved two million lives during the Soviet Union's Berlin Blockade. At a…

Seven-Seven years ago today, General Alfred Jodl signed Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender. The Allies, including the Soviet Union, had finally liberated…

Seventy-nine years ago today, Sophie and Hans Scholl were executed at Stadelheim Prison in Munich. Their "crime": They had spread the truth about Nazi Germany and the war on leaflets.

Colonel Halvorsen was a young U.S. Air Force soldier when Moscow blocked access to Berlin's Western sectors in 1948. He quickly became the most famous 'Raisin…

In Wilhelmsburg, a borough in Hamburg that is located between two arms of the Elbe River, people started going to bed. A storm surge had been announced. But…

The Berlin Bundestag observed the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust on Thursday. Inge Auerbacher, a survivor, told the MPs about her deportation to Theresienstadt.

On January 20th, 1942, some of Hitler's henchmen gathered in a villa at the Wannsee, one of Berlin's lakes. Reinhard Heydrich, the head of the Reich Security…

In late 2021, Germany had a new government and a deteriorating Corona pandemic. Not all news in the second half of the year were Corona-related though. What…

At the end of 2021, there seem to be lots of similarities with last year's situation. A new, more contagious variant of the Coronavirus is hitting Germany, the number of new infections is more or less the same and the outlook is sort of grim. But not all events of 2021 were about Corona. What happened from January to June?